María del Carmen Abascal, 87, was evicted from her home, on a stretcher, after being given 30 minutes to gather her belongings.
The Guardian's European community affairs correspondent, Ashifa Kassam, explains how her eviction sparked protests across Madrid, which led to 'Maricarmen' becoming the symbol of a long-running housing rights movement
Continue reading...Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy
The lawyer Mike Godwin famously came up with the “law” that, as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one (or 100%).
Robert P Jones thought long and hard about whether to go there in his latest book. But the more he studied US demographic numbers, considered the rise of Christian nationalism and heard Donald Trump use the language of racial purity, he found the conclusion inescapable. “This is our 1933,” he writes.
Continue reading...Approval ratings for Tory leader and her party have crept up as she has asserted her style and authority but big challenges lie ahead
A year ago, Tory MPs were braced for the prospect of yet another leadership battle to topple Kemi Badenoch as the party sunk to historic lows of 14-16% in the polls.
At the time, the word “November” was uttered in hushed tones – this being the decisive month when rebels would be able to mount a challenge, Badenoch having served 12 months in office.
Continue reading...As the university and local police defend their treatment of the alleged perpetrators, women decry a familiar story
Student safety advocates in the US call the start of the fall semester at universities “the red zone”. Fraternities, sororities and off-campus bars throw parties welcoming students back to school. It’s supposed to be fun, but it can also be dangerous: more than 50% of sexual assaults that occur at colleges happen during that six- to 10-week period.
It was mid-October of 2024, during the red zone and just before a deluge of Halloween celebrations, when, a former Cornell University student says, she was gang-raped by a group of fraternity brothers. Recent attention on these allegations sparked widespread outrage this week, reviving a contentious national debate about how authorities respond to allegations of sexual assault on US college campuses.
Continue reading...Rahman Salehi, 34, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, were charged with preparing attacks on city’s Jewish community, including Heaton Park synagogue
Two Iranian men identified a Manchester synagogue previously subjected to a fatal terrorist attack as a target for an alleged homemade bomb plot, a court has heard.
Rahman Salehi, 34, from Salford, and Salam Ahmadyan, 36, from Liverpool were charged with preparing to commit an act of terrorism or assisting another to commit an act of terrorism on Friday.
Continue reading...
Sergiy Galyonkin has added a photo to the pool:
Sunlight on traditional wooden tubs and buckets at the Historic Village of Hokkaido, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
Als je vader of moeder overlijdt, staat de AOW van die maand vaak al op de rekening. Dat geld is niet van jou. Laat je het staan of gebruik je het, dan kan er jaren later een flinke rekening komen. Dat geldt zelfs als je de erfenis hebt verworpen, zo blijkt uit een recente uitspraak van de rechtbank Overijssel. Hieronder lees je hoe het zit en wat je meteen moet regelen.
Volgens Dagelijkse Standaard overleed de moeder in 2020 in Turkije. Haar AOW werd toch doorbetaald tot en met januari 2025. Haar zoon kon bij de bankrekening. Van die rekening werden onder meer de vaste lasten betaald van de woning waarin hij woonde.
De Telegraaf schreef op 11 september al dat het overlijden vijf jaar verborgen was gebleven en dat de zoon de woning van zijn moeder in Deventer gebruikte. De Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) vordert nu €64.735,91 van hem terug.
Wie een erfenis verwerpt, krijgt daar niets uit. In principe hoef je dan ook de schulden in die erfenis niet te betalen. Daarom beriep de zoon zich op de verwerping. Maar de rechter keek naar iets anders: het geld kwam pas binnen nadat zijn moeder was overleden. Het was dus geen schuld die zij bij haar dood achterliet.
Volgens de rechtbank telde vooral dat de zoon zelf voordeel had van de betalingen die hij niet had mogen krijgen. Het geld was in zijn eigen vermogen terechtgekomen. Op één punt kreeg hij wel gelijk: het besluit van de SVB was eerst niet goed onderbouwd. Toch blijft de terugvordering van het volledige bedrag staan.
Geld dat er op de dag van overlijden al stond, telt anders dan AOW die daarna nog binnenkomt.
De AOW stopt op de dag na het overlijden. Dat geldt ook voor de inkomensondersteuning en het vakantiegeld. Vaak is de AOW voor de hele maand dan al overgemaakt, legt ASN Bank uit. Het deel na de sterfdag moeten de nabestaanden terugbetalen. De SVB trekt dat af van het vakantiegeld en van de eenmalige overlijdensuitkering. Is dat niet genoeg, dan maken de nabestaanden het verschil zelf over.
De overlijdensuitkering is één maand AOW plus het vakantiegeld over die maand. Een echtgenoot of echtgenote krijgt die vanzelf. Ben je geen partner van de overledene, dan staat in de brief van de SVB of jij er recht op hebt.
Bij een gewoon overlijden in Nederland hoef je niets te doen. Zodra er iets buitenlands aan de situatie is, ligt de verantwoordelijkheid wel bij jou. De SVB maakt dit onderscheid:
Je kunt het overlijden doorgeven via Mijn SVB of met het formulier voor wijzigingen. Ben je geen partner van de overledene, dan kan het ook telefonisch, meldt Nederland Wereldwijd. Hoe eerder de SVB het weet, hoe eerder de betaling stopt.
Er is nog een valkuil. Je kunt een erfenis per ongeluk zuiver aanvaarden, bijvoorbeeld door geld van de overledene op je eigen rekening te zetten, ook als dat maar tijdelijk is. Dat meldde de NOS in 2024. Wie zuiver aanvaardt, moet schulden bij de SVB terugbetalen, ook als die hoger zijn dan wat de erfenis waard is.
Vaak kunnen we de schuld verrekenen met het vakantiegeld of de mogelijke eenmalige overlijdensuitkering (in geval van AOW)
Lukt verrekenen niet, dan spreekt de SVB volgens dezelfde woordvoerder een betalingsregeling af. Beslag op inkomen is de allerlaatste stap. Let ook op de erfbelasting. AOW die de SVB na het overlijden nog overmaakt, hoort bij de erfenis. Wat je moet terugbetalen, is een schuld van de erfenis en mag je daarom aftrekken, schrijft Infotaris.
Bronnen: Dagelijkse Standaard, De Telegraaf (via Verzekeringsnieuws), SVB, Nederland Wereldwijd, ASN Bank, Uitvaart.nl, NOS, Infotaris
MADRID (ANP/AFP) - Tienduizenden mensen zijn zaterdag in Madrid en andere Spaanse steden de straat opgegaan om betaalbare huisvesting te eisen. De protesten volgen nadat steunmaatregelen voor huurders vrijdag door het Spaanse parlement werden verworpen.
De demonstraties zijn een voortzetting van massaprotesten die begonnen nadat een gepensioneerde vrouw vorige maand uit haar woning in Madrid gezet dreigde te worden. De 87-jarige Maricarmen Abascal woonde al ruim zeventig jaar in haar appartement, maar kon de huur na een enorme verhoging niet meer betalen. Uiteindelijk besloot de verhuurder dat het maandbedrag de komende acht jaar ongeveer blijft wat het was.
De kwestie groeide uit tot een symbool van de Spaanse wooncrisis. Het minderheidskabinet van premier Pedro Sánchez kondigde een pakket maatregelen aan dat huurders zou moeten helpen en riep Spaanse oppositiepartijen op het plan te steunen. Conservatieve en rechts-populistische parlementsleden stemden tegen Sánchez' maatregelen.
U vroeg om zelfrijdende auto’s en snelle wifi. U kreeg een gesprek vanuit buurthuis het gevallen systeemplafond AFAS. Rechtstreeks vanuit de smeulende resten van Woke 1: lekker kwebbelen met Bob en Sylvana. Ofwel: intersectionaliteit vs. communisme. Alsof Helmond Sport moet voetballen tegen het failliete AGOVV.
Behoorlijke BOOS-meta incoming: Bob had kritiek op intersectionaliteit want het heeft niets bereikt. Sylvana was geraakt door de kritiek. En wat doe je dan? Dan laat je BOOS AFAS huren en dan ga je een uur lang langs elkaar heen lullen. Het ging niet eens van A naar D en uiteindelijk naar X. Het ging van A naar groen en uiteindelijk naar peer. Bob stelde vast dat intersectionaliteit geen electoraat heefthad, hij besprak de cultuur van BIJ1 en dat er niet (zoals vroeger) op links open wordt gedebatteerd. Sylvana pakte dan de makkelijkste take en ging nergens op in. Bob gaf kritiek in de podcast, Sylvana wilde geen kritiek ontvangen want ze waren toch allies. Bob zei dat woke excessen had, Sylvana zei dat elke ideologie excessen had. Ook het communisme. Ja, zo kom je er wel.
Ons favoriete moment uit de rubberentegenspeeltuin:
Tim: "Finale vraag: kapitalisme slecht?"
Bob: "Slecht."
Sylvana: "Hartstikke slecht."
Daverend eeltloos applaus.
The post-war "peace dividend" owed its existence to three factors: industrial capacity, political freedom and pent-up demand.
Political freedom: the war's orgy of capital destruction of the majority of the wealth (and thus the power) of the world's oligarchs;
Demand: Making up for years of neglect and privation during the war required new production of infrastructure and consumption goods.
In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty and his students analyzed painstakingly assembled records of 300 years' worth of capital flows, showing that wealth tends to pool in the hands of the already-wealthy. This creates mounting instability, thanks to the misrule of a shrinking class of increasingly powerful hereditary, unaccountable oligarchs whose whims and follies trump the material and political needs of the vast majority:
https://memex.craphound.com/2014/06/24/thomas-pikettys-capital-in-the-21st-century/
That instability eventually reaches a breaking point in which the old order collapses in spectacular fashion, and that collapse destroys vast amounts of capital stock. Since this breaking point arrives as a result of oligarchy, in which nearly all the world's wealth has been hoarded by a tiny number of people, those aristocrats are disproportionately impoverished by the conflagration. If 90% of the wealth is in the hands of 1% of the people, a war or disaster that wipes out most capital will mostly destroy the wealth of the 1%. The poor suffer terribly, but they start with nothing – and end with nothing.
We are clearly steaming into one of these situations. The wealthy squandered two generations preventing the world from taking the climate emergency, and now the inevitable has arrived. California is on track to see a 12 inch sea-level rise in the next month:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/california-kelvin-wave-sea-level-rise
That's just the overture to the American run of this year's "Super El Nino," a blockbuster whose out-of-town previews have been slaying massive crowds all over the world:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/03/bangkok-thailand-floods-breaking-point-stagnant-lakes
Also right on schedule: the misrule of oligarchs has elevated a con-man to the presidency, who trumps every other president for both corruption and incompetence. From oil to dollars, telecoms infrastructure to the internet itself, Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to end the American empire:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/16/technopoly/#trumpismo-is-praxis-question-mark-exclamation-point
A post-American world is on the horizon. What that world will look like is undecided. The US was always a wildly defective trusted third party, but it retained its status as the world's platform for generations thanks to the absence of credible alternatives. Now – as Mark Carney told the Davos crowd last year – the old system has "ruptured":
What will replace the dollar?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/11/post-dollar-world/#de-dollarization
What will replace oil?
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/#better-late-than-never
What will replace the internet?
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition
No one knows. No one can know, because this is all up for grabs. The future isn't something that happens to us. The future is something that we make. And despite the horrible death toll that's locked in by waves of climate shocks – presided over by the dying, fumbling "drink bleach" guy – it's conceivable that the future we get will be a good one, if not an easy one.
A post-oligarch, post-American world could be a post-austerity world, one where we recognize that the limiting factor on public investment isn't money, but resources: energy, material, labor, expertise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ0Yf0Fhc
Just as the post-war world led to the "30 glorious years" by mobilizing people and material to rebuild a shattered world and shattered lives, a post-American world might be one in which we find full, meaningful employment for all of us, all of our children, and all of their children:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trente_Glorieuses
As seas rise, we're going to have jobs for every person who is willing, building sea defenses and moving whole coastal cities inland. Two generations of neoliberalism has left us with massive shortages of housing stock, crumbling highways, inadequate schools and hospitals. That means that we need to build lots more of these, and they can be built with state-of-the-art climate hardening, including geothermal heat, "passive home" designs, modern insulation, and heat-pumps. The rights-of-way for the interstate system would make dandy railbeds for arrow-straight, all electric high-speed rail powered by solar, wind and tides.
All of this has the potential to yield a second peace-dividend prosperity. A post-oligarch world can recover industrial capacity by diverting it away from destructive activity (data centers, luxury housing) to essential functions (climate defenses, decent housing for everyday people). A post-oligarch world can recover democratic excellence by removing the malign influence that morbid wealth exerts on our policy choices: for example, if we don't like the quality of public schools, we can fix them by giving schools more resources, not by letting billionaire dilettantes privatize and starve them in the name of "school choice":
Finally, a post-oligarch society can provide us with an even more inclusive version of post-war prosperity: we can use the wages we earn by building a better world to acquire new homes, induction tops, EVs and ebikes, and beautiful heirloom computers that are built to last for generations, upgraded and maintained by their users:
https://www.edn.com/as-moores-law-slows-open-hardware-rises/
This is a world of material abundance and prosperity. Just as the post-war world made millions of people comfortable, educated and happy by putting them to work clearing the rubble and building something better, a post-oligarch, post-American world can offer us all all the hard, rewarding work we want, performing the essential work of care and rebuilding. We'll find that work by helping hundreds of millions of climate refugees, who will find work helping each other. This is all economically valuable, environmentally sustaining labor that we have labor, energy and expertise for. It's just that all that labor, energy and expertise is being misallocated by the ultra-wealthy who don't even believe that the majority of us exist, and who want to bet the planet and our species on a bizarre scheme to feed so many words to the world-guessing machines that they wake up and become gods:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/13/vibe-governance/#k-hole
Nearly a century ago, John Maynard Keynes published "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren," where he extrapolated from rising productivity to predict a fifteen-hour work-week within two generations:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/smith/econ116a/keynes1.pdf
That dream was destroyed by war and greed. Today, we are submerged in an ocean of debt. I'm not talking about the (fictional) "national debt" that is just a measure of all the dollars the government has spent into existence without taxing out of existence:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/21/we-can-have-nice-things/#public-funds-not-taxpayer-dollars
I'm talking about fiscal debt: the solar we didn't build, the carbon we emitted instead; the rail we didn't build, the wildly inefficient aviation we substituted; the walkable, livable, transit-oriented cities we didn't build, the car-choked disasters we built instead. Oligarchic opposition to universal health-care left us sick, with un- or undertreated illnesses and missed opportunities for prevention that left us with overlapping, population-scale health crises. All of this is debt that must be repaid: we can't walk away from it through bankruptcy. We must build the transit, cities, and systems of care – the infrastructure – our species needs to carry on human civilization. We can't keep hitting snooze on this, lest we are finally awoken by seawater lapping at our pillows.
The world we're in today is awful and terrifying. It's awful because of the climate ruptures we're living through. It's terrifying because we didn't just fail to avert this crisis – we did nothing to prepare for it, either.
As Piketty foretold, the misrule of oligarchs has led to an orgy of destruction, and while poor people will get the worst of it, oligarchs will pay the most, because they own nearly everything, which means they own everything that will be destroyed, too. None of that is good, and it would be better if we hadn't gotten into this situation in the first place.
But after a forest fire, the canopy opens; and when it does, the seedlings that were overshadowed for centuries by the old growth can sprout in the ashes and the sun. We can't afford to continue living under oligarchy, and as oligarchs' greed and folly drives the old system beyond its breaking point, we must seize the opportunity to build a better successor.
The Enshittification of Mathematics https://rdcu.be/5uYGc2uo454a
Zack Polanski to call for three-year cap on private rent rises https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq74e4jg9leno
AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded,’ ‘crazy,’ and doesn’t understand cybersecurity https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/yann-lecun-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-deluded-crazy-cybersecurity/
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
#25yrago Leak: RIAA's anti-P2P strategy https://web.archive.org/web/20011019060035/https://www.dotcomscoop.com/riaa1003.html
#25yrsago Infoseek founder: my brain-scanner can find all the terrorists https://web.archive.org/web/20011009025805/http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/22020.html
#25yrsago Copyrighting every possible phone number as a touch-tone tune https://web.archive.org/web/20011007073546/http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/2001/10/04/FFX0PGT0CSC.html
#20yrsago What happens to password-locked data when you die? https://web.archive.org/web/20061106235805/http://news.com.com/Taking+passwords+to+the+grave/2100-1025_3-6118314.html
#20yrsago Audio of activist lawyer talk on Broadcast Flag and Chilling Effects https://web.archive.org/web/20061005074245/http://uscpublicdiplomacy.com/index.php/events/events_detail/1859/
#20yrsago David Suzuki: Steal my research – that’s what it’s for! https://web.archive.org/web/20061020144546/http://www.davidsuzuki.org/about_us/Dr_David_Suzuki/Article_Archives/weekly09290601.asp
#20yrsago Interdisciplinary DRM blog from my USC students https://uscpubd510.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2006-08-24T14:59:00-07:00&max-results=7&start=91&by-date=false
#15yrsag Inquisitor’s Apprentice: tenement sorcerers versus the robber barons in an alternate Gilded Age New York https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/04/inquisitors-apprentice-tenement-sorcerers-versus-the-robber-barons-in-an-alternate-gilded-age-new-york/
#15yrsago Context: Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century https://memex.craphound.com/2011/10/03/context-further-selected-essays-on-productivity-creativity-parenting-and-politics-in-the-21st-century/
#15yrsago Unicode’s “right-to-left” override obfuscates malware’s filenames https://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/right-to-left-override-aids-email-attacks/
#15yrsago HOWTO carve a pumpkin by hammering cookie-cutters into it https://web.archive.org/web/20200916004345/https://www.foodnetwork.com/fn-dish/shopping/cookie-cutter-pumpkin-carving
#15yrsago Shell funded warring militias in the Niger Delta https://web.archive.org/web/20111006003453/http://blog.platformlondon.org/2011/10/03/counting-the-cost-corporations-and-human-rights-abuses-in-the-niger-delta/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=counting-the-cost-corporations-and-human-rights-abuses-in-the-niger-delta
#10yrsago Sen Mitch McConnell blames Obama for bill that Obama vetoed and McConnell repeatedly voted for https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/10/congress-blames-veto.html
#10yrsago Polish women go on strike over extreme anti-abortion law https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37540139
#10yrsago Survivors of CIA torture describe homebrew electric chair used at Afghan black site https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/10/03/interview-new-cia-torture-claims
#10yrsago Visualizing the latent emotional and bureaucratic labor in our material world https://xkcd.com/1741/
#10yrsago Meth, Hitler and the Reich: the true, untold story of the Nazis’ dependence on coke, meth and oxy https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/25/blitzed-norman-ohler-adolf-hitler-nazi-drug-abuse-interview
#10yrsago Flying Saucers are Real! Anthology of the lost saucer-craze https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/03/flying-saucers-are-real-anthology-of-the-lost-saucer-craze/
#10yrsago The malware that’s pwning the Internet of Things is terrifyingly amateurish https://web.archive.org/web/20161004061621/http://motherboard.vice.com/read/internet-of-things-malware-mirai-ddos
#10yrsago California’s 40-year-old ban on property tax raises has made the rich a lot richer https://web.archive.org/web/20161001034224/https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-prop-13–20160929-snap-story.html
#10yrsago The Wells Fargo fraud came to light because of union organizers https://web.archive.org/web/20161005123132/https://prospect.org/article/first-and-foremost-wells-fargo-scandal-about-workers
#10yrsago “Power Poses” are bullshit https://web.archive.org/web/20161007215414/https://www.wbur.org/npr/496093672/power-poses-co-author-i-do-not-believe-the-effects-are-real
#10yrsago Martin Shkreli offers a bailout to ailing 4chan https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/4chan-cashflow-problem-martin-shkreli-wants-to-join-board/
#10yrsago Ghosts: Raina Telgemeier’s upbeat tale of death, assimilation and cystic fibrosis https://memex.craphound.com/2016/10/04/ghosts-raina-telgemeiers-upbeat-tale-of-death-assimilation-and-cystic-fibrosis/
#10yrsago Yahoo secretly built a tool to scan all email in realtime for US spies https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1241YT/
#10yrsago How to: Criticize technology https://www.cjr.org/tow_center_reports/constructive_technology_criticism.php
#10yrsago Johnson & Johnson says people with diabetes don’t need to worry about potentially lethal wireless attacks on insulin pumps https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-cyber-insulin-pumps-e-idUSKCN12411L/
#5yrsago USPS pilots postal banking https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avoidance-is-evasion/#check-cashing
#5yrsago The Pandora Papers https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avoidance-is-evasion/#transparency
#5yrsago Savage Love A-Z https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/04/avoidance-is-evasion/#ggg
#5yrsago Hope, Not Optimism https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/03/hope-not-optimism/
#1yrago When your ISP pays you https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/03/we-dont-care-we-dont-have-to/#were-the-phone-company
#1yrago Blue Bonds https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/fiscal-antifa/#post-trump
https://www.epl.ca/blogs/post/elbows-up-with-cory-doctorow/
Virtual: How to govern technology in a multipolar digital world (Connecting Current), Oct 6
https://connectingcurrent.tech/how-to-govern-technology-a-multipolar-digital-world/
South Bend: An Evening With Cory Doctorow (Notre Dame), Oct 6
https://franco.nd.edu/events/2026/10/06/an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/
Hudson, OH: Hudson Library, Oct 7
https://engagedpatrons.org/EventsExtended.cfm?SiteID=3850&EventID=596952&PK=
Calgary: Wordfest, Oct 8
https://wordfest.com/2026/show/wordfest-presents-cory-doctorow-2026/
Winnipeg: McNally Robinson, Oct 9
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/event-18991/An-Evening-with-Cory-Doctorow
Paris: Slow Tech Summit, Oct 15
https://slowtechsummit.com/
Vancouver: Read, Resist, Repair, Rejoice (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 19
https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/01
Victoria: Munro's Books, Oct 20
https://www.munrobooks.com/events/6113620261020
Vancouver: Life After AI (Vancouver Writers Festival), Oct 22
https://writersfest.bc.ca/festival-event-2026/46
Ottawa: Life After AI (Ottawa Writers Festival), Oct 24
https://writersfestival.org/event/life-after-ai
Kilkenny (Kilkenomics), Nov 6-8
https://kilkenomics.com/
Vancouver: Enshittification (Sid Williams Theatre Society), Nov 10
https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/cory-doctorow-talks-enshittification/
Vancouver: BC Policy Solutions Gala, Nov 12
https://bcpolicy.ca/gala/
Montreal: World Science Fiction Convention, Sep 2-6
https://montreal2027.ca/en
AI, Work, and Power (Software Engineering Daily)
AI, Work, and Power https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/podcasts/cory-doctorow-on-ai-work-and-power/
AI, Corporate Power, and the Fight for Worker Control (Plutopia)
https://plutopia.io/cory-doctorow-ai-corporate-power-and-the-fight-for-worker-control/
How to Think About AI—Before It’s Too Late (Daniel Solove)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0xR3uEgGcc
Could Tech Bosses Destroy Life As We Know It? (Politics JOE)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL4VktU0SgY
"Canny Valley": A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/04/illustrious/#chairman-bruce
"Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, October 7 2025
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374619329/enshittification/
"Picks and Shovels": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about the heroic era of the PC, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2025 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865908/picksandshovels).
"The Bezzle": a sequel to "Red Team Blues," about prison-tech and other grifts, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), February 2024 (thebezzle.org).
"The Lost Cause:" a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org).
"The Internet Con": A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245).
"Red Team Blues": "A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before." Tor Books http://redteamblues.com.
"Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin", on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com
"Unauthorized Bread": a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, April 20, 2027
"Enshittification, Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" (the graphic novel), Firstsecond, 2027
"The Memex Method," Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2027
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Currently writing:
"The Post-American Internet," a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America. Fourth draft completed. Submitted to editor.
A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING
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